I’ve been working on a Markdown document that uses Mermaid figures. As the document has grown, the importance of having captions on the figures such as “Figure 3. SRA flowchart” such that I can later write, “As shown in Fig. 3,…”

Now, if I hardcode all the figure numbers, I can come up with a solution to this. Alternatively, I know I could make this work if I have a step where I export the Mermaid figures to a PNG file. However, what I want is for Markdown to track the Mermaid figures just as if I was using PNG files, without having to export them to PNG (or other figure type).

Is that possible?